Dewey on Organisation
| Autor: | Stephen Pratten |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Social ontology
Pragmatism Sociology and Political Science Philosophy media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Perspective (graphical) Metaphysics 050109 social psychology Causality Epistemology Fallacy of the single cause 0502 economics and business 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences 050207 economics Applied Psychology Naturalism media_common |
| Zdroj: | European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy. |
| ISSN: | 2036-4091 |
| DOI: | 10.4000/ejpap.1671 |
| Popis: | In some of his later contributions Dewey places particular emphasis on the category of organisation. Organisation features prominently both in his later metaphysical writings and in some of his more substantively focussed contributions. Organisation is also a central category for two contemporary ontological projects, namely Tony Lawson’s perspective on social ontology and the interactivist framework developed by Mark Bickhard and his collaborators. In these modern naturalist perspectives, the thorough theorisation of organisation is seen as crucial in accounting for emergent phenomena, resisting ontological and causal reductionism and resolving ambiguities associated with certain formulations of downward causality. This paper compares Dewey’s remarks on organisation in his later writings with these contemporary treatments of organisation and argues that Dewey anticipates some of the insights that have been systematically set out in these modern programmes of research. |
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